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Seven years ago, I was involved with peace activism, fighting for an end to the occupation, and the dignity of Palestinian life. Today, I find myself fighting for the right of Jews to exist in our ancestral homeland at all. My politics haven’t changed. The discourse has. 1/3
This is what I mean when I say the ahistorical discourse in left wing circles forces Jews, who otherwise would be a part of peace building coalitions, to instead focus on fighting for their rights to self-determination rather than training their activism on the Israeli-right. 2/3
And all of this underscores that this *particular* strain of unnuanced, typically white, American, non-Jewish, anti-Zionism, doesn’t in fact care about coalition building to create peace. Because Jews don’t figure into what they think a just solution looks like. 3/3
(Epilogue) I will continue to argue that anti-Zionism is not *inherently* antisemitism. Like if someone believes all ethnostates are shitty, that’s not antisemitic. If someone has a nuanced POV where their solution is the replacement of Israel as an ethnostate (epilogue 1/2)
with a pluralistic civil nationalism that includes Jews. That’s not inherent antisemitism. We can debate the feasibility of it, but that solution is not seeking to erase Jewish connection to the land. But the historically unhinged anti-Zionism... is antisemitism. (epilogue 2/2)
